“If companies were allowed to drill for oil and gas in Atlantic waters off the East Coast, the work would help create nearly 280,000 new jobs and contribute some $23.5 billion to the U.S. economy....”
We certainly can’t have that now, can we? (sarc)
People with interest in local fisheries (it is in the tidewater MD/VA area) who had contacted me asked what they should do because environmental groups were soliciting their support in opposing drilling. Iknew of the one well which had been drilled, and I told them to go out to the location check it out (the well had been plugged and abandoned, the site reclaimed). When they finally found the dry hole marker in the meadow, they refused to object to the drilling program, because, as they put it, "things were being done right".
Still, the environmentalists prevailed.
Had the project continued and been successful, the whole DC Metro area could have been heating with natural gas instead of fuel oil or electricity for the past 30 years.
Nope, can't have stuff like that.